Merry Christmas everybody.

Maybe Santa will come and visit some of us tonight, maybe, if we’ve been nice and good people through out the year. I meet him on the 20est in Sai Kung. It was the day we were leaving to go to holiday in Aberdeen –not the Hong Kong version, but the real one, in Scotland. Well I was surprised to see him there on the 20est, but then again I thought that would kind of be all right as he then could manage to be here n Scotland sometime tonight to unload all our presents. Just to be sure he knew that we were not in our house in Tai Wan village a approached him and made him clear we wouldn’t be there. By the way, I’m not sure how he can manage to give the Hong Kong people their presents, as there are no chimneys on Hong Kong houses. FA change from the recent 23 degrees during the day, to just above 0 degrees in just 12 hours. It could be a very quick change from summer to winter, without the autumn but it isn’t. That is the fact when you travel from Hong Kong to Scotland in December, so if you believe it or not, it was two very cold passengers who got picked up at the airport in Aberdeen at noon on Sunday the 21st. The preparations for the arrival of Santa in the morning is all going well and we’re on time, the 7,5 kilo turkey is in its “bath” of water, herbs and different vegetables, just waiting the last 24 hours before being cooked, the stuffing is ready, the sausages wrapped with nice slices of bacon and the wine is selected and put in the right temperature, so what could possible go wrong; well the fact that Santa is still stuck in Sai Kung, enjoying the nice temperatures around there. Merry Christmas to all out there and enjoy the next few days – and more- and don’t eat too much. And just to follow the big majority of UK shops and warehouses: en joy Slade and their Christmas hit from 1977: “Merry Xmas everybody”

Glædelig julemåned

It is hard to get in a Christmas mood with temperatures at around 20 degrees and sunshine from a clear blue sky.
The shops and big shopping centers tries their best though, as all over, everything is set and decorated for the biggest shopping event of the year; the Christmas shopping. And what is a Christmas without the Christmas markets? In Dresden we got spoiled in that case, in fact in all of Germany they get the best of that kind in nearly every city, town or village, and exactly at the weekend they opened one of the most famous ones; "the Christ Kindl Markt" in Nuerenberg, our school had the yearly Christmas fair.
Around the buildings and all over the basket courts and playgrounds the parents support had put up numbers of stalls, selling all kinds of goods and food. It is a nice tradition and a couple of thousands came to celebreate this "summer" Christmas fair.
But who can drink "Glueh Wein" or "Ruhm Grog" by sunny 23 degrees? No that was not the way to adapt some Christmas mood, and the lot's of Santa figures and the Christmas trees planted around the school area didn't help either as they didn't look real to me or how I remember them from happy my childhood in the dark and cold Christmas time in the middle of no where in Denmark, where the snow nearly covered every thing, except maybe the big chimneys of the the saw mill. So I guess I have to go through December again without any kind of Christmas feeling, just like last year.
But what, it isn't worth it either, and in about one month everybody have forgotten already.
By the way, tomorrow -the 4th of December at 7:30 PM, my football team -(Traktor)Sai Kung Yacht- has a game on the grass pitch in town, so I have to go out and buy some real football boots, but that hasn't any thing to do with Christmas either.

Last Christmas we went to Hanoi

It is the 1st of December and we’ve opened to first door in the Dresden Christmas calendar which Lone –my sister in law send to us after they visited Dresden in October. Well, already again Christmas time. Amazing how time just flies past us and leaves us stunned and older. Like last year the Christmas mood doesn’t seem to get to us here in the south china area, and mainly that is because of the weather. November has been extremely beautiful and nice. It has become colder though, now the temperature sometimes at night goes down to 14 degrees, and during the day only up to 22 to 23 degrees, and the humidity has dropped to about 60, so it feels rather cool but quite nice, in fact like in the summer in Europe. The Christmas month has started and like last year I will try to post something Christmas like everyday like the doors in a Christmas calendar. Last year we spent the holidays in Hanoi in Vietnam visiting Julia Hatch, and this is where to days Christmas picture is taken. And why do I show that now? Well, among my colleagues at work, there is a lot of people from Australia and New Zee land, And in November the males normally grow a beard or a mustache to put focus on men’s health. So did I, and at the end of the month it is common that you show a picture of a famous resemblance. This is not what I choose, but I am too shy to show the famous person I in fact chose, so here you have one, to who’s famous beard I couldn’t reach in a month. (And a photo that shows my November Mo and OK then, but just for you; my resemblance)